12 Ill. 2d 547 - Pyle v. Ferrell’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 160 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 179 later decisions — most recently January 2026 · most notably 202 Ill. 2d 89 - People v. Boclair (2002), 81 Ill. 2d 317 - Finley v. Finley (1980)
6 federal appellate · 160 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Twin-Lick Oil Company v. Marbury · Jilek v. Chicago, Wilmington & Franklin Coal Co. · Neagle v. McMullen · 8 Ill. 2d 494 - McCartney v. McCartney · Newland v. Marsh
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 179 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"(1) Conduct on the part of the defendant giving rise to the situation of which complaint is made and for which the complainant seeks a remedy; (2) delay in asserting the complainant’s rights, the complainant having had notice or knowledge of defendant’s conduct and the opportunity to institute a suit; (3) lack of knowledge or notice on the part of defendant that the complainant would assert the right on which he bases his suit[;] and (4) injury or prejudice to the defendant in the event relief is accorded to the complainant or the suit is held not to be barred.” Pyle v. Ferrell (1958), 12 Ill. 2d 547, 553 , 147 N.E.2d 341, 344 .”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“such neglect or omission to assert a right, taken in conjunction with a lapse of time of more or less duration and other circumstances causing prejudice to an adverse party, as will operate to bar relief in equity.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““These matters (the Court proceedings) were all of public record, and although appellant claims not to have had notice of any of these matters adverse to his ownership, such public record served as constructive notice to him * ° ( 12 Ill. 2d 547, 554 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.